Hand hook



April 23, 1929. 1', GRANT 1,710,575

I HAND HOOK Filed Aug. 29, 1927 ill) Patented Apr. 23, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ASA T. GRANT, OF BANGOR, MAINE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO AMASA L. STEVENS,

0F BANGOR, MAINE.

HAN D HOOK.

Application filed August 29, 1927. Serial No. 216,255.

The invention aims to provide a new and improved hand hook so constructed that it may be quickly and'easily engaged wlth a piece of wood or other object lobe carried, simply by striking the hook against the object and at. the same time jerking it to 01 use the hook bill to penetrate, the construction being such that there is no danger of the ope alor injuring his knuckles by contact with the wood or other object to be carried. ill: the 'lfore i log in View, the inyenlion side; in the novel construction hereinal'ter led and claimed, the preferred form -h construction being shown by the accompanying drawing. 7

Fin 1 is a side elevation of the hook and in dotted lines illustrating a log or the like managed therewith.

lEiJg. I. is a perspective View of the hook.

The shank of the hook embodies a straight major portion El, a front end portion *l which is also straight and is disposed at an obtuse aiinle to said major portion 3, and a rear portion 5 also at an obtuse angle to said major portion 3, the three POI'lTlUllS 3--l5 being all integral with each other. Integral with. the extremity of the frontend portion I-l: oi the shank and projceiling rearwardly therefrom, is a straight hook bill 6 which is sharply pointed and is substantially parallel with the major portion 5 of the shank.

ilhe rear shank portion 5 which projects in the opposite direction from the front portion is preferably bifurcated, providing it with two arms 7 between which a hand- 'rip 8 is secured by a rivet or the like i). ll desired however a construction could be employed in which a rear portion corresponding to is not bifurcated and 1s provided at its rear extremity with a haudgrrip it bring coinnuin in the handbook art: to provide either bifurcated or nonbiturcatod ends. so that an illustration of the modification which I have mentioned, will be imnecessary. l

The construction above described, insures that when the shank portion ll) at the tincture o l the portions El-5. comes in contact with a log or the like L to be carried, the hook hill (5 will. be at an extremely acute angle to said log or the like, so that a forcible jerk on the hook handle will insure efl'ective pone tration of said bill to obtain aneflective .l. m1 that in which said front portion pro ecls; a strai ejlit, rearwardly projecting hook grip. Attention is also directed to the-fact that while the hook is being engaged with the member to be carried and after such engagement, the handgrip 8 is so positioned that there is no. danger of the users knuckles coming in Contact with said member and being injured.

Excellent results have been obtained from the exact details disclosed and they are therefore preferably followed. However,

within the scope of the invention as claimed,

slight variations may be made.

. I claim:

1. A hand hook con'iprising a shank having a straight major portion, a front end portion at auobtuse angle to said major portion, and a rear end portion also at an obtuse angle to said major portion but projecting in the oppositedirection and in a plane parallelto the plane of the front end portion, mid trout end portion of the shank being provided with a straight rcarwardly projtmteil hook bill substantially parallel with said major portionof said shank but diver ring reurwardly therefrom. said rear portion. of the shank being; proviiiled with a transverse lniudgrip.

lront end but of substantially i i ".2. A hand hook iomprising a shank liarmg a straight, relatively long, flat-sided,

portion being; disposed at an obtuse angle to :aid major portion; and

tion but projwting in the opposite direction a rear end portion also at. an lllll lltlkfll llgllltlji said n'iajor por-.

bill on the front end of said front portion;

said hook bill being substantially parallel with but at its inner edge rearwardly di verging from said long major portion and lnainp; substantially hall the length of the latt. and a. transverse to said rear endxportion of theshank. V

In testimony whereof I have hereunto allixed my signature.

ASA T. GRANT.

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